The conference tries to put some additional focus on technical and political aspects and will present one of the current "flagship" projects dealing with safe and secure European routing.
In addition the conference will provide some insights in the political aspects and business strategies of the involved companies to strengthen the European Communications Security. In presentations and a panel discussion the current strategies and future requirements and aspects will be further elaborated focusing on the question if secure communications for Europe is a realistic or impossible goal.

The conference provides an updated picture of the current status and current achievements of the 80 million research project SASER (Safe and Secure European Routing) partly publicly funded by Germany (BMBF, France (DGCIS, and Finland (TEKES).

Finally, in an exhibition the SASER projects will present and demonstrate their latest results.

Who should participate:
The conference is targeting decision makers from:

- Politics and industry
- Researchers from industry and universities
- Industry and SME working particularly on network security and safety
- Network operators and manufacturers having a particular focus on strengthening European communications security.

Programme structure:
Open to full public:

24 June: 13:00 to 18:30: SASER Conference "Secure Communications in Europe" (conference fee required)
25 June: 9:00 to 17:00: Celtic-Plus Proposers' Day - Presentation and discussion about new project proposals (free access)


About SASER:
SASER (Safe & Secure European Routing) is a 80 million Public-Private Partnership project of 58 companies, research organisations, and universities from Germany, France, Finland, Denmark and UK. The project is partly publicly funded by the research ministries/ agencies: BMBF (Germany); DGCIS (France), and TEKES (Finland). The project is run under the EUREKA cluster programme Celtic-Plus.